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<p align="center"><b><font size="6">VisIt 1.0.3 Release Notes</font></b></p>
<p>Welcome to VisIt's release notes page. This page describes the important 
enhancements and bug-fixes that were added to this release.</p>
<p><b><font size="4">Features added in version 1.0.3</font></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>VisIt now supports database plugins.</li>
  <li>Material interface reconstruction is faster.</li>
  <li>The Subset plot can now show groups.</li>
  <li>VisIt now provides a query for volume of a material.</li>
  <li>VisIt now has a file information window that provides information about 
  the open file.</li>
  <li>The current working directory is available as an option in the File 
  Selection window.</li>
  <li>The Contour plot now has an opacity slider for the single color option.</li>
  <li>VisIt now has a '-dir' command line option that allows the location of 
  VisIt to be specified on remote machines.</li>
  <li>The password window now shows the username when it is appropriate.</li>
  <li>The Silo database plugin can read in legacy expression definitions.</li>
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<p><b><font size="4">Bugs fixed in version 1.0.3</font></b></p>
<ul>
  <li>Reflected Subset plots caused the engine to crash.</li>
  <li>The test suite crashes VisIt.</li>
  <li>Subsetting a Pseudocolor plot can crash the engine.</li>
  <li>The Threshold operator gives a confusing error message when an invalid 
  variable is used.</li>
  <li>The GUI hangs when changing files too quickly.</li>
  <li>Lighting causes 2D plots to be too dark.</li>
  <li>The Windows version of VisIt cannot connect to remote machines.</li>
  <li>Object lights are not working correctly.</li>
  <li>Cannot do transparent and thick lines at the same time.</li>
  <li>Ambient light intensity does not affect Pseudocolor plots.</li>
  <li>Confusing error message with BadIndexException.</li>
  <li>Recent paths that have spaces are not read back in properly.</li>
  <li>Subset plots of materials in subdirectories cause an extra popup menu in 
  the variable menu.</li>
  <li>The test results Web page should sort past results from newest to oldest.</li>
  <li>The VisIt User's Manual needs to be updated.</li>
  <li>Help generation tools don't work with FrameMaker 7.0.</li>
  <li>Config files on Windows platform are not saved in the right place.</li>
  <li>Subset plot gives confusing error message when there is no data.</li>
  <li>Pieces of interactive tools are obscured by transparent plots.</li>
  <li>Annotations for thin meshes are badly skewed.</li>
  <li>Bounding box navigation mode generated two redraws with transparency 
  enabled.</li>
  <li>2D vector defvars don't show up for point2d.silo.</li>
  <li>Problems with mesh quality metrics and reduced connectivity points.</li>
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<p>Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version 
of VisIt: <a href="relnotes1.0.2.html">VisIt 1.0.2 Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version 
of VisIt: <a href="relnotes1.0.4.html">VisIt 1.0.4 Release Notes</a>.</p>

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